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She forages for mushrooms and finds joy in reading an old encyclopedia.
Your mom and your grandmother are actors and your dad is a playwright.
I wanted to be anything but an actress.
It was a really intense story.
I played young Louise in that.
I had to do some pretty intense scenes.
And teach people things as well in a non-forceful kind of way.
So we did a self-tape.
I sent it off to the casting director and hoped for the best.
And then another little while later, I Skyped with her again.
I was really confused because I didnt know I had the role yet.
And I was going, What is going on?
And the next day my agents called me and were like, You got the part!
And I was like, Ahhh!
What were the improvisations that you had to do?There were two.
And the other one was one with a bunny, and that was the scene with Isaiah Stone.
What kind of prep did you have to do for filming?
So I started a journal as well.
We learned about signals from birds.
I learned about mushrooms and using knives and making fires.
Just watch and observe the bees as well.
It was really cool.
It was a really intense preparation process.
He made a shelter.
And then we spent a lot of time together during the wilderness training and all the rehearsing and everything.
It was that kind of a shelter, a camouflage one with sticks and ferns and everything.
What was the actual filming of that sequence like?
So the challenge was trying to act to be cold and pretend to be shivering and pretend hypothermia.
But I loved working and filming in the forest.
It was so beautiful and you become really aware of sounds and things.
Theres a lot more to look at rather than filming on a set where its manmade.
Youre in nature and looking at nature and being really aware of where youre stepping and what youre touching.
It was amazing being able to film in that kind of environment.
One of them is called hug to connect.
Did the accent come naturally to you?
Obviously the accent worked.
But I think working with the bees and being able to hold the bees in my bare hands.
It sounds really weird, but it was just a really surreal, a unique experience.
That feeling Ive really kept with me because it was such a grounding feeling.
When I get older, I really want to have a beehive now.
How did you find Toms journey over the course of the movie?
Debras last narrative feature is the movie that launched Jennifer Lawrence.
Did you think about that all?
Did that add any pressure?Definitely I thought about it.
I knew Jennifer Lawrences career kind of stemmed from that film.
Weve got our own styles and techniques.
I love Jennifer Lawrence.
I think shes hilarious and goofy and just really cool and talented.
Its been important reminding myself of that as well.
And Im completely against guns, by the way.
I picked it up and I just put it in my bag thinking it was cool.
So they found it and they freaked out and they called the police.
We had to wait for an hour and the police came and talked to me.
It was so scary.
They were just like, Dont do it again.
So that was my nearly got arrested story.
I was on the verge of tears the whole time.
It was the most horrible experience ever.
You have two movies in production now.
What are you working on right now?At the moment Im in Prague forJojo Rabbit.
And last week I was in London working onThe King.
Ive done all my scenes for that.
I ran away and hid behind a tent because I was so scared to meet her.
Why were you so scared to meet her?Because its Rebel Wilson!
Its known that the story is about World War II and Hitler and Nazis.
Just thinking about that, too.
